NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Sunday, July 21 (game #140)

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    NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Sunday, July 21 (game #140)

    Fancy another easy Strands game to end the weekend? You got it. That’s been a bit of a theme lately, without any really tough ones for a while. Maybe it will change soon.

    Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games.

    SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

    [HEADING=1]NYT Strands today (game #140) - hint #1 - today’s theme[/HEADING]
    [HEADING=2]What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?[/HEADING]

    • Today’s NYT Strands theme is… S-words? (a cutting-edge theme!)

    [HEADING=1]NYT Strands today (game #140) - hint #2 - clue words[/HEADING]

    Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

    [ul]
    [li]CLAY[/li][li]CHEAT[/li][li]TEAM[/li][li]TAME[/li][li]BASIL[/li][li]STARE[/li][/ul]
    [HEADING=1]NYT Strands today (game #140) - hint #3 - spangram[/HEADING]
    [HEADING=2]What is a hint for today’s spangram?[/HEADING]

    • Sharp thinking?

    [HEADING=1]NYT Strands today (game #140) - hint #4 - spangram position[/HEADING]
    [HEADING=2]What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?[/HEADING]

    • First: right, 4th row

    • Last: left, 4th row

    Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

    [HEADING=1]NYT Strands today (game #140) - the answers[/HEADING]

    [IMG alt=“NYT Strands answers for game 140 on a blue background”]https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/X2...XXJEr82Lsk.jpg

    (Image credit: New York Times)

    The answers to today’s Strands, game #140, are…

    [ul]
    [li]CLAYMORE[/li][li]SCIMITAR[/li][li]CUTLASS[/li][li]RAPIER[/li][li]KATANA[/li][li]MACHETE[/li][li]SPANGRAM: BLADES[/li][/ul]


    [ul]
    [li]My rating: Easy[/li][li]My score: Perfect[/li][/ul]



    On reading the theme clue here I was excited for a complex Strands puzzle that required out-of-the-box thinking. What could ‘S-words? (a cutting-edge theme!)’ mean? Did all of the answers begin with S… but the S was missing? Were they all words where a synonym for them began with S? Something even more fiendish? But no, they were all just types of swords. Shame.

    That became obvious as soon as I found CLAYMORE, off the back of spotting CLAY and then realizing that I could extend it. After that it was a simple case of searching my brain, and the board, for other BLADES (as the spangram would have it), which was not a particularly taxing task.

    How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.



    [HEADING=2]Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Saturday 20 July, game #139)[/HEADING]
    [ul]
    [li]SAUCER[/li][li]FORK[/li][li]KNIFE[/li][li]SPOON[/li][li]GLASS[/li][li]PLATE[/li][li]NAPKIN[/li][li]SPANGRAM: PLACESETTING[/li][/ul]


    [HEADING=2]What is NYT Strands?[/HEADING]

    Strands is the NYT’s new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s now out of beta so is a fully fledged member of the NYT’s games stable and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

    I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.

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